Book Review: The Art of Thinking Clearly

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2 min readAug 21, 2020

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One silver lining of this lockdown is picking up new habits.

If reading books is that habit for you and you want to start off easy we recommend “The Art of Thinking Clearly” by Rolf Dobelli.

Genre: Non-fiction | Pages: 336

You get to learn about 99 interesting human cognitive biases and the short format of each chapter will keep you hooked.

Easy language and clearly defined chapters in the form of varied questions like “Why should you visit cemeteries ?” to “Why should you not accept free drinks ?” the answer to which are crisp chapters defining different biases like Survivorship bias , Hindsight bias,Endowment effect, Outcome bias and a lot more like these which are deeply ingrained in the human mind and the fun anecdotes for each chapter will help you retain information better

This book is a great way to start or get back to reading as it won’t require a lot of time, the easy writing style won’t deter you from finishing the book and the short chapters will good take aways will provide that sense of accomplishment, that all of are looking for in this lockdown.

More books like this

  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kaheman
  • The Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear

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